kindergarten

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Recent Examples of kindergarten Calls by the staff to line up in order were ignored, with at least one man climbing over a fence to enter a nearby kindergarten, footage showed. Chris Lau, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025 All the way from kindergarten through the 12th grade. Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 5 Feb. 2025 In 2024, the CDC reported that coverage for all vaccines in children enrolled in kindergarten fell below 93%, with uptake of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine standing at 92.7%. James Powel, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2025 The average cost of private school attendance, from kindergarten through high school, is $312,026, according to the Education Data Initiative. Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for kindergarten
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Noun
  • Movie fans may best recognize Fisher-Becker as the ghostly Fat Friar in 2001's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; the character appears among a number of Hogwarts' resident ghosts upon Harry Potter's (Daniel Radcliffe) first arrival at the school.
    Tommy McArdle, People.com, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Residents have complained about chases in their neighborhoods and around schools, hospitals, and places of worship.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Hamby noted older teens in high school should be mindful of behaviors that hinder their personal growth.
    Julianna Bragg, CNN, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Day two of the Texas high school boys basketball UIL state championships are here.
    Charles Baggarly and, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In interviews with The News, parents have repeatedly expressed a desire to remain in the city, but a struggle to make ends meet while waiting for public school.
    Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Many Mennonite families don’t send children to public schools.
    Carlos Nogueras Ramos, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Instead, the hardline Islamist group has done an about-face and banned women from going to university, closed secondary schools and beauty salons, and stopped women from working at NGOs, including at the United Nations.
    Salma Abdelaziz, CNN, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Historic buildings, elementary and secondary schools, manufacturing buildings, agricultural buildings and federal buildings can apply to be exempted.
    Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The monthly goal is to give away about a thousand books, usually to elementary schools, middle schools and different children’s organizations, or to have students come into the bookstore and clear the shelves themselves.
    Shanzeh Ahmad, Chicago Tribune, 1 Mar. 2025
  • The club’s goal is to honor students at Barnard, Kate Sessions and Pacific Beach elementary schools and Crown Point Junior Music Academy.
    Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025
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  • The series at the time focused on Hayley Mills, who played the title character, and her students at an Indianapolis junior high school.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2025
  • While days were spent instructing junior high school students in the Washington area, Flack's nights coalesced around her budding music career.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Project 2025 proposes that the government could support parents who choose to homeschool or put their kids in a religious primary school by providing Educational Savings Accounts and school vouchers.
    Alex Hinton, The Conversation, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The photographer’s first campaign under this new course showed a primary school class made up of a multiracial group of children.
    Luisa Zargani, WWD, 13 Jan. 2025
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  • The system's junior high ranked first statewide among middle schools in overall ATLAS growth with a rate of 88.11%.
    Lena Miano, arkansasonline.com, 2 Mar. 2025
  • By middle school, many kids’ interest in learning falls off a cliff.
    Jenny Anderson, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2025

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“Kindergarten.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kindergarten. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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